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Let me ask you, do you rely on referrals as your best “marketing and advertising” tool? If you are like most business owners, you have very little time to work “on” your business while you work “in” it. In this regard, you better be leveraging efficient methods to prod your customers, clients or patients to

You, of course, realized that there are now 100 days left to reach your major goal or goals for the year, right? Well, maybe you didn’t think about it. So, here is my nudge to you. 100 days is a great chunk of time to now take a fresh look at what you can accomplish

This morning I was talking with a wonderful new friend named Phil Swimley about baseball and his efforts to make it more accessible to young kids. Phil is a Davis, California native, he was the head coach of the Davis Aggies baseball team for many years in the 1970s and 80s and did some coaching

A business has many assets – its technology, its product, its customers and most notably, its employees. Your team is one of your major assets. Without a good team, you are not going to be able to deliver your service or product to your customers as you intend. To that degree, you’ll have difficulty building

by Gary Pevey, Wealth Design Group There are several interesting things that happen as the holidays approach. One of those includes the subject of money. The holidays are a time when we reflect on our friendships and family. Some of us try to make up for all those times that we had our attention on

Here are five common traits that turn dreamers into doers. We all have dreams. But how many of us actually fulfill them? Making dreams come true is the thing of movies, right? On TV we see it happen. We idolize those that have managed to realize the seemingly impossible. Hundreds of books have been written

One of your greatest assets is one that’s often overlooked. I’m talking about your personnel. Not just their training or professional experience but something even more intricate – their emotional tone. Every person is in a particular “emotional state” or tone at any given time. Although they may change tones for short periods, people are

Before making any investment decision, one of the key elements you face is working out the real rate of return on your investment. Compound interest is critical to investment growth. Whether your financial portfolio consists solely of a deposit account at your local bank or a series of highly leveraged investments, your rate of return

Wasn’t it yesterday that Y2K was going to turn all of the computers on the planet into a techno-version of Planet of the Apes and civilization was going to implode into anarchy of zeros and ones? Hard to believe we are 15 years into the 21st century. And in case you have been traveling off-planet

There’s an important but simple marketing step that can help take your sales and income into a much higher range. You may understand the audience for your product or service. Your promotion may be well written and your sales people gung-ho. But you’ll lose potential income if you lack this point: You must tell people